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Kennelly, M. S. J. ; Dore, Henry, S.J. (trans)
Chinese Customs
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interion is clean and free of marking of any kind. Good, solid, clean reading copy. 223 pages, first published in 1911, the intro lists about 250 books that were consulted in the writing of this one. Heavily illustrated.
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Jiao, Fan
Learning Chinese Measure Words
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 244 pages. Illustrated.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: Selected Speeches and Messages 1940-1950
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 280 pages. Full green cloth boards with gilt lettering.
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Lao-Tzu; He, Guanghu; Ren, Jiyu
A Taoist Classic: The Book of Lao Zi
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 103 pages.
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Yuan Ke; Translated By Ke Wen-li & Hou Mei-xue
Stories From Chinese Mythology
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. In a very good slipcase. Patterned silk cover. 438 pages. Text in English.
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Doar, Bruce Gordon; Dewar, Susan
China Archaeology & Art Digest: Vol 1 No 3
A clean, unmarked copy; tight binding. 254 pages. July-September, 1996.
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Doucheng, Du; Shuqing, Wang
Dunhuang & Silk Road
A clean, unmarked copy - except for ink note on endpaper -with a tight binding. 115 pages. Many color photos and illustrations.
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Lip, Evelyn
Classic Chinese Legends
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 111 pages. Previous owner's note on endpaper.
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Harris, Nathaniel
Hamlyn History of Imperial China
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 192 pages. Many illustrations.
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Zhang, Baiqing;Zhu, Chengyao
Chinese Films and Television Plays
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 183 pages, many color & b&w photos, sections (each with several chapters) include: Birth and Start of Chinese Cinema 1905 - 1948 Development and Ups and Downs of Chinese Cinema 1949 - 1976, Explorations and Progress of Chinese Cinema 1977 - 1997, Maturing of Chinese Television 1958 - 1997 . Text is in English.
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Jianzhong, Qiao
Chinese Music
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean. 180 pages, Many color & b&w photos.
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Stursberg, Peter
No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 216 pages. Inscribed by author. Slight edge wear to cover.
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Wilson, Ernest H.
China: Mother of Gardens
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 408 pages. With fold-out map and 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. Previous owner's inscription inside. Purple cloth boards with silver lettering and design. Bumped very lightly at corners, otherwise in excellent conditon, showing little to no wear.
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Bossert, Helmuth Th.
Decorative Art of Asia and Egypt
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is tight and straight and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book has been re-bound by the library in to strong, heavy green cloth boards that show small tears at lower corners, but little else. Interior is very very clean and bright with very heavy paper with sharp corners. The forty 4-color full page plates illustrate approximately 600 examples of ornamental designs from Ancient Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Persia, Bokhara, Samarkand, Chinese Turkestan, Persia, India, Siam, China, Japan; and from those of the Tartars, the Siberian peoples, the Lapps, the Kirghiz, the Turcomans and the peoples of the Pamir plateau. These illustrations cover mainly the peak periods of non-European civilizations, so rich in decorative ornaments.
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Fang, Zhang
Animal Symbolism of the Chinese Zodiac
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 156 pages.
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Kwan, Michael David
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 244 pages. Inscribed by author.
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Imin, Turdi
Chinese Painting Collection of Turdi Imin / Tu er di ? yi ming zhong guo hua zuo pin Ji
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 117 pages. Many color plates. Some wear and spots on back cover.
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Thrasher, Alan R.
Chinese Musical Instruments (Images of Asia)
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 98 pages. Pictorial cover. Illustrated. Contents: The Ancient Heritage; Han Literati and the Qin; Common-Practice Instruments in Historic Perspective; Sizhu Instruments; Chuida Instruments; Postscript: Twentieth-Century Developments; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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No Author Listed
Historical Pictures: The Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. 92 pages. Text in English and Chinese.
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Liu, kwang-Ching (ed.)
American Missionaries in China
Some edgewear with a curled lower corner of the front cover, spine fading. Binding and text/interior are clean and tight. An introduction by the editor, then seven articles on various subjects including missionary contributions to China, the relationship of missionaries to Chinese nationalism or the missionary's relationship to rural problems. 310 pages with index,
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China Social Culture (ed.)
The Best in Modern Chinese Folk Painting
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 179 pages. Many color illustrations. Includes paintings from regions all over China.
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Henry, William Jay Rathbun and Catherine A. Kaputa Trubner
Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum: A Selection and Catalogue
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 300 pages. 8 3/4"w x 10 1/2"h.
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Yunhua, Hu
Penjing: The Chinese Art of Miniature Gardens
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 166 pages. Many photos and illustrations. Tears on dust jacket.
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Clements, Johathan
Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 239 pages with several pages of b&w photos.
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Gillette, Maris Boyd
Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption Among Urban Chinese Muslims
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 279 pages. Slight edge wear.
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Chinese Paintings
9 5/8"wide x 12 3/4"tall. Full cloth boards (raw silk?) with gilt Chinese characters. 135 pages. Full color prints; 140 printed pages of color paintings with bilingual Chinese and English text. Dust jacket worn around edges with small tears.
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Chinese Rubbings
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 176 pages. Catalogue of color and black and white rubbings. Text in English and Chinese. No date given; circa 1980. 8 5/8"w x 8 184"h.
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Wenjie, Duan (Editor)
The Cream of Dunhuang Art /Tun-huang i shu ching hua
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 127 pages. 9 7/8"w x 9 1/2"h. "This picture-album offers you 136 masterpieces of the mural paintings, painted sculptures, silk-paintings, brick-paintings and calligraphies in Dunhuang art, adding an academic thesis and the simple explanations of the plates." Text in English and Chinese.
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Gunn, Edward M.
Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Literature in Shanghai and Peking 1937-1945 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 334 pages.
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Smith, Susan
Made in France
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages, plus section of b&w photos. Black and white illustrations by Walter Stewart throughout. Full gray cloth boards. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. For ages ten and up.
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Chen, Jason, C.S.
4 World-Famous Chinese Green Teas: Dragonwell, Bi Luo Chun, Mao Feng and Steamed Green Tea (A Tea Lover's Travel Diary II
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Covers show light shelf wear only, binding is solid, square and tight and text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Book shows very little wear. A huge number of color photographs, text in Chinese and English, 300 pages.
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Chicago, Judy
The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage
Black cloth covers have sharp corners with lower back worn. A little fading at upper and lower spine edge, otherwise very clean with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top spine, is price clipped, has edge wear, chipping at hinge edges; no tears greater than 1/2". The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
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Chicago, Judy
The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage
Black cloth covers have sharp corners, fading at lower spine, a llittel along the bottom edge. Very light scuffing to boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 255 pages with lavish illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is tattered at top edge with numerous open tears, none larger than an inch. Jacket at lower spine is chipped away at hinges, general chipping and wear, not price clipped. The story behind the creation of the monumental feminist scuplture The Dinner Party, a project which took years to complete. Illustrated with many full color plates and black and white photographs showing the construction of the component pieces, which included 39 ceramic place settings, embroidered runners and a heritage floor honoring 999 women of achievement (includes brief biographies of all these women). Design by Sheila de Bretteville. Index. Large format. Publisher's page marked "Anchor Press Edition 1979" and "First Editions" Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival cover.
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HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART
Hong Kong, the changing scene: A record in Art
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Exhibition catalog for show at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 8/2/80 -- 9/3/80. Oblong format, 11" wide with 58 color and b&w full page prints depicting the historical and gradual development of Hong Kong harbor and city as recorded in painting and drawing. Descriptions in Chinese and English on the L. page with the print on the R. Text/interior is spotless and printed on heavy paper.
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AU HANG
The Au Hang Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square in dark grey cloth with embossed character on the cover. Covers have sharp corners, except for lower corner of front cover is bumped. This is the only blemish to the book. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 265 pages with standard format being four photos on R. page with descriptions on L. page. This is sometimes varied. Contents includes Glass, Jade, Quartz & chalcedony, Other stones, Organic materials, Metals, Ceramics, Enamels, Inside-painted, Accessories. With Forword, Preface, Reigns of the Qing Dynasty and Selected bibliography.
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Yun, Cai
Basic Chinese Boxing
247 pages with b&w illustrations with movement lines on nearly every page. Chapters include Fists, palms, hooks and claws, Leg snapping (cutting and smashing, two feet kick, patting and locking ), Strength boxing, Hand to hand fight boxing, etc. Text is in Chinese and English.
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Chua , Soo Pong
Change and Innovation in Chinese Opera
Book is in excellent condition. New. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Text is in English & Chinese. B&W photos, 183 pages. Sticker has been removed from half title page.
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Rudy, Stella M.
Children of China
Small format hardback with pictorial cover on paper-covered boards. 6 7/8"w x 5 7/8"h. Unpaginated; approx. 60 pages. Previous owner's name inside. Many b&w photos (two colored neatly by previous owner). Pages show darkening around the edges.
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Li Zi Jian Paintings of 1994 (Humanity and Love: International Exhibition )
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Includes pamphlet from tour. Text in Chinese and English. 60 pages. 9 3/4"w x 9 3/4"h. Essays: "The Transcendent Realism of Li Zijian" by Dennis Wepman; "A Dinner with Poetry and Intelligence - My Impressions about Li Zijian's New Oil Paintings of 1994" by Xio Liang Zeng. Color reproductions.
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Liang, Fang-Chung
The Single-Whip Method of Taxation in China
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 74 pates. "The most thorough study yet available of the systematic commutation of taxes-in-kind and labor-service into silver payments in the late Ming period, this monograph has an important background value for any study of the growth of money economy in modern China."
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Hill, Beth ; Cathy Converse
The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley 1769 - 1845
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Till, Barry; Paula Swart
Porcelain of the High Qing 1662 - 1795 : The Brian S. McElney Collection
Exhibition catalog for the show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in '83 and the Vancouver Art Gallery in '85. Unpaginated, about 55 pages with a Historical Background with sections: Porcelain of the Kangxi period (1662 - 1722), .. of the Yongzheng period (1728 - 35), the Qianlong period (1736 - 95), followed by 188 photos of examples of the various types, most in b&w. Bibliography at back. Covers show very light shelf wear only, interior/text is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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John Rabe
The Good German of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe
Book is in excellent condition, one page is dog-eared as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Incredible story of the wholesale butchery by the Japanese military invading the civilian occupied city of Nanking and the Nazi sympathizers who acted in a medical capacity to save large numbers of people.
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Fredrikke S. Scollard; Terese Tse Bartholomew; Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Shiwan Ceramics: Beauty, Color, and Passion (English and Chinese Edition)
Exhibition catalog in excellent condition in every respect from the show of the same name at the Publisher's gallery from June to October 1994. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 110 pages with deep red end papers, heavily illustrated with large full color prints of the sculptural pieces that make the show, usually two pieces per page. Text in English and Chinese.
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Burgis, Tom
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 323 pages with a few with b&w photos.
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Jan Fontein
Han and T'ang Murals: Discovered in tombs in the People's Republic of China and copied by contemporary Chinese painters
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 131 pp., illus. mostly b&w, some color. Cataloge of an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in cooperation with the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China, Washington, D.C. Size: 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. 141 paintings illustrated and described.
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Sanada, Ryo ; Suridh Hassan
Graffiti Asia
Book is in excellent condition with very minor wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Includes unused CD at back, guranteed to operate as new. 128 pages, heavily illustrated, with graffiti from China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,
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Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane
Peonies: The Imperial Flower
Book shows light wear to covers, previous owner's name on half title page blacked out,. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Heavily illustrated with large color photos, history of to chapter 5, then current peonies with 80 of the best commercially available intersectional hybrids, and 125 of the herbaceous peonies. Then several sections on growing.
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Ucko, Peter J. ; G.W. Dimbleby (eds) F.R. Allchin, J. Burton-Page, Juliet clutton-Brock, Maria Hopf, Charles A. Reed, Ruth Tringham, William Watson, Duncan Noble, Clifford Owen, M.L. Ryder, N.A. Barnicot, D. R. Brothwell et al.
The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's name on half title page. 579 pages; sections include: Origins of domestication: environmental background; Patterns of exploitation, Methods of investigation: cereals in ancient Egypt, pollen grains of Gramineae and Cerealia from Shandiar and Zawi chemi, Domestication and exploitation of animals: Animal husbandry: the evidence from ethnography, Metrical destinction betwee sheep and goat metacarpals, Regional and local evidence for domestication: early domestic animals in India and Pakistan, early cultivated plants in India and Pakistan, Carnivore remains from the excavation of the Jericho Tell, early animal domestication and cereal cultivation in China, Studies of particular taxonomic groups, Human nutrition etc.
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McIlroy, James G.
A Military Attache in Japan: 1929-1933
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 261 pages.
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